College Board – Digital Product
Location:
This is a remote role,
aligned to working core EST hours
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Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes.
Role Type
:
This is a full-time position
About the Team
The Digital Product team is driving the evolution of College Board’s digital assessment experience. As AI reshapes education, we are preparing students for the future by ensuring our digital assessments remain secure, meaningful, and reflective of the knowledge and skills needed to thrive in an AI-enabled world.
At the heart of this strategic work, we are a collaborative group of product leaders, strategists, and innovators reimagining how digital assessments are delivered and experienced. Our work spans the full product lifecycle, from discovery and design to delivery and continuous improvement. We partner across the organization to ensure every solution we build improves outcomes for students, educators, and institutions.
Every year, our platform delivers assessments to millions of students worldwide, providing opportunities that shape futures and open doors. Together, we are transforming College Board’s trusted assessment platform into a next-generation digital assessment experience that is secure, user-centered, and built to evolve with the future of learning and assessment.
About the Opportunity
As the Senior Technical Product Manager, Identity Management, you are a technically fluent and strategic product leader who brings curiosity, creativity, and a drive to experiment. You will lead delivery of the Identity Management foundation of College Board’s digital assessment platform, which delivers secure, high-stakes assessments to millions of students each year. You bridge business priorities and technical execution to ensure the platform’s foundation is resilient and future ready. In this newly created role, you will own product management for the systems that establish and authenticate user and system identities, enabling secure access to and interaction with our assessment platforms, including our internal consumer IdP, federated SSO, and account identity services.
You will blend strategic innovation with technical delivery, shaping priorities through data, research, and platform goals, while owning the reliability, scalability, and long-term sustainability of your product area. You are accountable for delivering resilient, future-ready platform capabilities that power secure and seamless user experiences. Partnering closely with other product leaders, engineering, and architecture teams, you will define and deliver the technical foundations that ensure College Board’s digital assessment platform continues to evolve with confidence, efficiency, and scale.
In this role, you will:
Define and Prioritize Technical Roadmap and Product Direction (30%)
Establish and maintain a clear roadmap for the Identity Management technical component, ensuring the digital assessment platform continuously improves in usability, reliability, scalability, and performance.
Identify opportunities to modernize architecture, automate workflows, and introduce new modular platform capabilities that improve efficiency, scalability, extensibility, and flexibility in support of future innovation.
Use monitoring, analytics, and feedback to refine priorities and guide evidence-based roadmap decisions.
Lead experimentation and technical learning cycles so that innovative ideas are validated early and inform long-term platform direction.
Align cross-functional teams and stakeholders around the roadmap so that priorities are executed cohesively and with maximum impact.
Drive Iterative Product Development (50%)
Translate architecture goals and product strategy into a clear, iterative set of experiments and a delivery plan that delivers measurable improvements in stability, extensibility, and efficiency.
Continuously update and refine the delivery plan as new learnings emerge to keep engineering teams focused on the highest-value work that advances platform goals.
Lead technical pilots and develop proofs-of-concept to test emerging technologies, integrations, and infrastructure improvements — accelerating learning and reducing risk before scaling.
Define clear hypotheses and measurable success criteria so that requirements are clear, testable, and aligned with both architectural and business needs.
Collaborate daily with engineers, product teams, and internal stakeholders to clarify requirements, resolve dependencies, and ensure secure, high-quality delivery.
Communicate Value and Progress (20%)
Provide clear, outcome-focused updates that communicate measurable impact and insights, and demonstrate how technical delivery enables and advances College Board’s strategic goals.
Translate technical progress and requirements into business impact by clearly connecting platform investments to the value they create for users through secure, scalable, and reliable digital assessments.
Share documentation, release notes, and updates so that internal teams understand and can leverage new capabilities.
Lead demos and platform updates that inspire trust in the platform’s evolution and showcase measurable improvements in reliability, scalability, and innovation.
What Success Looks Like
Clear, measurable outcomes are defined and achieved through continuous discovery and delivery.
Platform services and integrations are secure, reliable, and scalable, with measurable improvements in performance and developer efficiency.
Pilots and proofs-of-concept validate technical solutions early, reducing risk and informing future roadmap direction.
Delivered capabilities strengthen the foundation of the digital assessment experience, enabling faster and more reliable delivery of user-facing features.
Stakeholders recognize you as a trusted technical product leader who bridges business priorities and technical execution with clarity and influence.
About You
To qualify for this role, you must have:
8+ years of product management or related experience, with a proven track record leading products within SaaS enterprise platforms.
Deep understanding of secure, large-scale, and complex systems; experience in assessments or educational technology is a strong plus.
Technical fluency, with a strong understanding of back-end systems, APIs, data integrations, and platform architecture; experience in identity management and authentication protocols is preferred.
A proven ability to drive measurable business and user outcomes through discovery and delivery.
Experience collaborating closely with engineers, architects, and cross-functional stakeholders in complex technical environments.
High attention to detail and exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, precise documentation and ensure shared understanding across technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple dependencies and priorities effectively.
Familiarity with AI-enabled tools, automation, or data workflows (preferred).
The ability to travel 5–7 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business.
All roles at College Board require:
A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
Authorization to work in the United States for any employer
Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, with a willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions and a comfort learning and applying new digital tools independently and proactively.
Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal
A learner's mindset and a commitment to growth: welcoming diverse perspectives, giving and receiving timely, respectful feedback, and continuously improving through iterative learning and user input.
A drive for impact and excellence: solving complex problems, making data-informed decisions, prioritizing what matters most, and continuously improving through learning, user input, and external benchmarking.
A collaborative and empathetic approach: working across differences, fostering trust, and contributing to a culture of shared success.
About Our Process
Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
While the
hiring process
may vary, it generally includes: resume and application submission, recruiter phone/video screen, hiring manager interview, performance exercise such as live coding, a panel interview, a conversation with leadership and reference checks.
What We Offer
At College Board, we offer more than just a paycheck—we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. We’re a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation, grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market.
A Thoughtful Approach to Compensation
The hiring range for this role is
$120,000 – $190,000
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Your exact salary will depend on your location, experience, and how your background compares to others in similar roles at the College Board.
We aim to make our best offer upfront—rooted in fairness, transparency, and market data.
We adjust salaries by location to ensure fairness, no matter where you live.
You’ll have open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it’s like to work at College Board throughout your hiring process. Check out our careers page for more.
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